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Syrian Kurdistan (also Western Kurdistan (Kurdish: Rojavayê Kurdistanê or simply Rojava)) is the portion of Kurdistan in Syria, located in three non-contiguous regions in the Aleppo, Raqqa, and Al-Hasakah Governorates.[1] Kurds form the predominant ethnic group. Apart from the Afrin Region, most of which has been part of the Turkish occupation of northern Syria since early 2018, the majority of Syrian Kurdistan is under the jurisdiction of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES), which began in Syrian Kurdistan at the beginning of the Rojava conflict in 2012. Because of these origins, the Kurdish term for Syrian Kurdistan, Rojava, has become a shorthand for the AANES (particularly in foreign media), even though the AANES has come to include regions that have never been considered part of Kurdistan.
Kurdistan also includes parts of southeastern Turkey (Northern Kurdistan), northern Iraq (Southern Kurdistan) and northwestern Iran (Eastern Kurdistan).[2]
The term Syrian Kurdistan is often associated and used in the context of Kurdish nationalism, which makes it a controversial term among proponents of Syrian and Arab nationalism. There is ambiguity about its geographical extent, and the term has different meanings depending on context.
References
- ^ https://thekurdishproject.org/kurdistan-map/syrian-kurdistan/
- ^ Kurdish Awakening: Nation Building in a Fragmented Homeland, (2014), by Ofra Bengio, University of Texas Press